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[S 0 L E N Y A]

PSR is illusory.
When the daily player population is ~ 1k, then PSR is not going to matter much, unless you want it to have hard thresholds.

[Dee Eight]

Kotis77, on 29 December 2018 - 06:04 AM, said:

I wish PGI would consult Sean Lang about balance and skill gap. He's a good player. Not best but real Tier 1 material. Even he couldn't be that blind understanding whats going on in game. He's only good player that PGI got.

He's a PGI employee and isn't about to tell the bosses what they really need to do. Its not in his job description to do so.

[Vellron2005]

Dee Eight, on 30 December 2018 - 12:35 PM, said:

Depends on the time of day currently and also the fact we do not have actual #s showing in solo queue, which is the only place tier sorting happens so we don't get to see the total # waiting to be sorted or already in a match. Steam charts only track steam client users... and its showing a 30 day peak (likely the 27th) of 1,883 with 1,382 playing 10 min ago and a 1,426
24-hour peak. The last 30 day peak that was higher was back in May. The Summer solstice loot bag event in june only peaked at 1,793. During the 1-day 1 match December double-hero last year we had a steam client peak of 2,489. 2 weeks ago, at 3pm on Sunday the 16th there were 994 steam users in the game. The forum stats show 665 users online in the past 30 minutes, but that's just users looking at the forums.

So what its showing is we never had more than 2500 players online in any recent time frame? Do you think that any sort of matchmaking can be effective with such a small player base?

I think that even if our entire player base doubled in size overnight, T1s will still drop with T3 and T4 on occasion..

The ONLY thing that a reset would accomplish is to pad the ego of "true T1 players" and give them incentive to look down on "fake former T1 players" even more..

Personally, I don't care about my PSR tier or my stats in the slightest (which is why I don't display them publicly).. I care about hours spent having fun. That's all.

Most game modes in MWO don't even have matchmaking.. and if you ask me, Solaris currently has the best matchmaking. But even that is plagued by low population, so we're getting bad games there..

Edited by Vellron2005, 31 December 2018 - 01:07 AM.

[General Solo]

Yes for PSR reset